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Evaluation of self-sampling-based cervical cancer screening strategy using HPV Selfy CE-IVD test coupled with home-collection kit: a clinical study in Italy
BackgroundPrimary human papillomaviruses (HPV) cervical cancer screening can be strengthened by offering home-collection of biological specimen as a...
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Thoroughly Validated Bayesian Estimator and Limited Sampling Strategy for Dose Individualization of Ganciclovir and Valganciclovir in Pediatric Transplant Recipients
Background and ObjectiveGiven a high pharmacokinetic inter-individual variability and a low exposure target achievement, ganciclovir (GCV)...
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Impact of a strategy based on unique blood culture sampling on contamination rate and detection of bloodstream infections in critically ill patients
BackgroundUnique blood culture (UBC) has been proposed to limit the number of venipuncture and to decrease the risk of BC contaminations (BCC)...
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Community-based respondent-driven sampling as a strategy for drug use surveillance in a large French urban area
BackgroundUnderstanding drug use and behavior within the PWUD population is crucial to adapt harm reduction and prevention strategies, and provide...
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Sampling weighting strategies in causal mediation analysis
BackgroundCausal mediation analysis plays a crucial role in examining causal effects and causal mechanisms. Yet, limited work has taken into...
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Repurposing phone booths into COVID-19 sampling stations: medical operator experiences
This study investigated the repurposing of phone booths into COVID-19 sampling stations and assessed medical operator experiences in twelve...
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Hybrid representation-enhanced sampling for Bayesian active learning in musculoskeletal segmentation of lower extremities
PurposeManual annotations for training deep learning models in auto-segmentation are time-intensive. This study introduces a hybrid...
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A comparative study on two methods of ocular surface microbial sampling
PurposeTo compare the effect of traditional conjunctival sac swab sampling (A) with aerosolization ocular surface microorganism sampling (B),a novel...
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Active Learning in Brain Tumor Segmentation with Uncertainty Sampling and Annotation Redundancy Restriction
Deep learning models have demonstrated great potential in medical imaging but are limited by the expensive, large volume of annotations required. To...
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Determinants of Repeating an HIV Test Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who have Sex with Men, and Transgender People Who Use an Online-Requested Self-Sampling Program and Attending Community-Based Testing Venues in Spain (2018–2021)
Our aims were: (1) to characterize gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and transgender (TG) populations using internet-based...
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Respondent-Driven Sampling: a Sampling Method for Hard-to-Reach Populations and Beyond
Purpose of ReviewWe provided an overview of sampling methods for hard-to-reach populations and guidance on implementing one of the most popular...
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Sampling inequalities affect generalization of neuroimaging-based diagnostic classifiers in psychiatry
BackgroundThe development of machine learning models for aiding in the diagnosis of mental disorder is recognized as a significant breakthrough in...
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Stratified split sampling of electronic health records
Although superficially similar to data from clinical research, data extracted from electronic health records may require fundamentally different...
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Introducing an efficient sampling method for national surveys with limited sample sizes: application to a national study to determine quality and cost of healthcare
BackgroundSampling a small number of participants from an entire country is not straightforward. In this case, researchers reluctantly sample from a...
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Nurses’ perspectives on user-friendly self-sampling interventions for diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections among young women in eThekwini district municipality: a nominal group technique
BackgroundSyndromic management in the main non-laboratory-based management approach for sexually transmitted infections (STI) in most low- and...
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At-home blood self-sampling in rheumatology: a qualitative study with patients and health care professionals
BackgroundThe goal of the study was to investigate patients’ with systemic rheumatic diseases and healthcare professionals’ experiences and...
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Pharmacokinetic Modeling, Simulation, and Development of a Limited Sampling Strategy of Cycloserine in Patients with Multidrug-/Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Background and ObjectiveMultidrug-resistant tuberculosis has much poorer treatment outcomes compared with drug-susceptible tuberculosis because...
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Reach and effectiveness of an HPV self-sampling intervention for cervical screening amongst under- or never-screened women in Toronto, Ontario Canada
BackgroundCervical cancer is almost entirely preventable with appropriate and timely screening. In Ontario, Canada, South Asian, Middle Eastern and...
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Limited use of virtual reality in primary care physiotherapy for patients with chronic pain
BackgroundChronic pain is a disabling condition which is prevalent in about 20% of the adult population. Physiotherapy is the most common...
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In vivo imaging using surface enhanced spatially offset raman spectroscopy (SESORS): balancing sampling frequency to improve overall image acquisition
In the field of optical imaging, the ability to image tumors at depth with high selectivity and specificity remains a challenge. Surface enhanced...
